The history of the League. . be much ftartledathis demands, that he recalld her withmuch dexterity into his interefts ; byworking on thofe two paffions whichwere rooted in her Soul. She defirdto raife to the Throne, after the deathof the King her Son, her GrandfonHenry de Lor rain, Marquis du Pont;and believd that the Duke of GuJfewoud contribute to it all that was inhis power. But as cunning as fhe was,flie faw not into the bottom of thatPrince, who fed her onely with vainhopes of that Succeflion for another,to which he perfonally afpird. Shoinfinitely hated the Duke of Efpemon,and believing
The history of the League. . be much ftartledathis demands, that he recalld her withmuch dexterity into his interefts ; byworking on thofe two paffions whichwere rooted in her Soul. She defirdto raife to the Throne, after the deathof the King her Son, her GrandfonHenry de Lor rain, Marquis du Pont;and believd that the Duke of GuJfewoud contribute to it all that was inhis power. But as cunning as fhe was,flie faw not into the bottom of thatPrince, who fed her onely with vainhopes of that Succeflion for another,to which he perfonally afpird. Shoinfinitely hated the Duke of Efpemon,and believing he was the man, whohaving poflefsd himfelf of the King sSoul, had rendered her fufpedfced tohim, longd to turn him out of Court;promifing her felf by that means tobe re-eftabliihd in the managementof affairs from which the Favouriteshad removed her. And the Duke ofGuife who had as little kindnefs asher felf for the Duke of£fpernony con-curred in the fame defign, with at leaflas much earneftnefs, but for a muchBb i different. The Hiflory of the League. different end ; for he detird to be ab-folute himfelf. In this manner thisiiibtle Prince, always diflembling, andartificially hiding the true motives bywhich he ad:ed, drew the Queen atlaft to content to all that he defird :and above all, to give her allowancethat a requeft fhoud be prefented tothe King in the name of the Cardi-nals, the Princes, the Peers of France,the Lords, the Deputies of Paris andthe other Towns, and of all the Ca-tholicities united for the defence of theCatholt^ue^ Apofioli^ue and Roman Re-ligion. This requeft which in the mannerof its expreiTions, wascouchd in moftrefpe&full terms, contained notwith-standing *in the bottom of it, certainProportions, at leaft as hard as theArticles of Nancy ; and even as thofe,which not long before were proposedto the Queen by the Duke of after a proteftation in the begin-ning of it, that in whatfoever hadpafsd till that prefent time, therehad been nothing done, b
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